Growing up in a family can lead to tensions as well as affections; facing the question of what to do in life, what to believe; humour, sadness, frustration, joy … everything is there in “The Photo Album”.
Month: February 2020
As Though Everything Depended om Me
Countries slide into fascism step by step. That was the situation in Germany in the 1920’s and dearly 1930’s. Some far-sighted journalists such as Kurt Lenz tried their best to warn of the future. Of course they paid a bitter price. Read “As Though Everything Depended on Me”.
The Photo Album
“The Photo Album” contains no actual photos, but it has a novel technique to get readers to visualise the characters and events.
Fatal Empires
What fate awaited Pacific islanders in the period of European colonisation. Not a happy one. Read about it in “Fatal Empires”.
Reluctant Messiah
Was Mary Magdalene an ex-whore? No, she was branded as such by men jealous of her intimate friendship with Jesus. Read about it in “Reluctant Messiah”.
Reluctant Messiah
Judas’s name is a synonym for treachery. But that is a travesty of what really happened. Read about it in “Reluctant Messiah”.
As Though Everything Depended on Me
A case can be made for saying that journalists are among the most important members of any community — we depend so much on them to know what is going on. Read the story of a brave interwar German journalist whose motto was “as though everything depends on me” in the novel of that name
The Photo Album
In “The Photo Album” the focus shifts gradually from life in a forest to that in a village, then to a city, a capital, and finally to the big world beyond Australia. Despite their scattered interests and political and religious differences a family solidarity continues.